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TITLE: FETISH,
AN EROTICS OF CULTURE
AUTHOR: Krips, Henry ISBN: 1 85343 448 5 PAGES: 200 LIST PRICE: 16.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: 15 Aug 1999
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TITLE: FETISH,
AN EROTICS OF CULTURE
AUTHOR: Krips, Henry ISBN: 1 85343 448 5 PAGES: 200 LIST PRICE: 16.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: 15 Aug 1999
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| DESCRIPTION: Drawing on Jacques
Lucan's theory of the gaze and Louis Althusser's concept of ideology, Krips
explores the means by which texts create pleasure and desire. He discusses
the supposition that cultural artifacts (whether the writing of Tolkein,
the music of Wagner, or a Playboy centrefold) imprint or condition their
audiences. He exposes the ways in which, for ideological or explicitly
political reasons, such claims of psychocultural connections may be exaggerated.
His analyses are developed in the context of a discussion of a wide range
of texts drawn from anthropology, literature, art and physics.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Henry Krips is
Professor of Communication and Professor of History and the Philosophy
of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
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